The author is making some real howlers, also.
Try this one on for size:
“All Christians agree that if we sin after Baptism, we have to confess our sin, otherwise we will go to Hell if we die with sin.”
I guess that might hold if the author eliminated all Calvinists and all Baptists who adopt the “once saved always saved” line. If that is the case, then the author is taking two steps back for every step he thinks he is taking forward with his ecumenism....
More likely, though, the author is just not very aware of other Christian traditions.
Can a Muslim, an Indian, a Hindu go to Heaven?... yes, God wants everybody in Heaven”
No comment.
There are many good things within the Roman Catholic Church, and I do not hate Roman Catholics. The reality is that Lutherans and Roman Catholics have fundamental differences. There is a difference between disagreement WITHIN the church structure and the difference that occurs OUTSIDE the church. Once Luther was excommunicated and the various irenical confessions were rejected by Rome, the differences grew too wide for any reconciliation. If Rome had been willing to Reform herself earlier, instead of waiting for the Council of Trent, history could have been very different for all concerned. There is no way to undo centuries of disunity and theological differences at this point.